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Afrobarometer Survey Series

Investigator(s): Michael Bratton, Nicolas van de Walle, et al.

The Afrobarometer series was developed by
select Africanist scholars with funds from a variety of sources:
the National Science Foundation, the Swedish International
Development Cooperation Agency, the United States Agency for
International Development (USAID), the Danish Governance Trust
Fund at the World Bank, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation,
Michigan State University, and the Netherlands Ministry of
Foreign Affairs. The series represents a large-scale,
cross-national survey research project designed to
systematically map mass attitudes to democracy, markets, and
civil society in more than a dozen sub-Saharan African
nations, and ultimately, to track the evolution of such
attitudes in selected nations over time. More specifically,
the series furnishes research data on democracy, governance,
livelihoods, macroeconomics and markets, social capital,
political regimes and transition, conflict and crime, political
participation, and national identity in sub-Saharan Africa.
Afrobarometer surveys are conducted periodically in such
sub-Saharan African nations as Botswana, Cape Verde, Lesotho,
Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda,
Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The series is partly modeled on Eurobarometer
studies of the last 24 years, the new Eurobarometer studies of the
last ten years, the Latinobarometer, and the East Asianbarometer.
It thus enables comparison across continents.